🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2024-13697

MEDIUM 4.8

Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss <= 2.7.4 - Unauthenticated Limited Server-Side Request Forgery in nice_links

CVSS Score
4.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

The Better Messages – Live Chat for WordPress, BuddyPress, PeepSo, Ultimate Member, BuddyBoss plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.4 via the 'nice_links'. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make web requests to arbitrary locations originating from the web application and can be used to query and modify information from internal services. Successful exploitation requires the "Enable link previews" to be enabled (default).

CWE CWE-918
Vendor wordplus
Product better messages – live chat, chat rooms, real-time messaging & private messages
Published Mar 1, 2025
Last Updated Apr 8, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

wordplus / Better Messages – Live Chat, Chat Rooms, Real-Time Messaging & Private Messages
0 ≤ 2.7.4

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b67710d7-976b-4a65-bad3-091a97aceb00?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3243180/bp-better-messages

Credits

Tim Coen